In 1994, Christian founded the Early Opera Company, with whom he set out to reinvigorate the Baroque repertoire.
Christian and the EOC appear regularly at Wigmore Hall and St John’s Smith Square for the London Festival of Baroque Music. They have also performed at the BBC Proms as well as at the Cheltenham, Spitalfields, York Early Music and Kilkenny Arts Festivals. The EOC made their debut at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw with a double bill of Dido and Aeneas and Blow’s Venus and Adonis in 2018. Christian has conducted acclaimed productions for English National Opera, for Scottish Opera, Garsington Opera, Opera North, The Royal Opera Covent Garden, as well as with Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Landestheater Salzburg, Oper Stuttgart, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Halle Handel Festival, Opera Australia, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and Chicago Opera Theater. Christian has conducted the Academy of Ancient Music, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bournemouth Symphony, English Concert, Essen Philharmoniker, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Hallé, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber, Stavanger Symphony, Ulster Orchestras, Tasmania, West Australia, and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras.